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I'm using SolidJS for Infumap (https://github.com/infumap/infumap), which is getting pretty big.

Two main comments that come to mind:

Because the state -> DOM mapping is non-trivial for my application, I ended up writing my own virtual DOM diffing code, a primary facet of React. I appreciate the ease of being able to circumvent this where it's not necessary and performance considerations dominate, though I admit i've not felt the need to do it anywhere yet.

The AI training data set for React is much larger. The models seem to do fine with SolidJS, though I suspect there is meaningful benefit to using React from this point of view.

Overall, I'm happy with where I'm at and I prefer the SolidJS way of thinking, though if I were to do it all over again, I'd probably just go with React for the above two reasons.


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math04/23/2025

I was not expecting to loose karma for this comment!

I have a couple of years familiarity with SolidJS and thought the two key insights that came to mind from building a large project in it would have positive value.

Apparently not!

sensiblecarrot704/23/2025

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